a file that represents another object in the file system
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update to 10.8.3 from 10.7.5 broke many (all?) existing aliases
I depend a lot on aliases to files and folders. Just after upgrading, most of those I've checked, aliases that worked before the upgrade, fail now. I get the usual error message, "...the original ...
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Can an alias be added to the dock via the command line?
I found this article but it handles the GUI solution.
I would like to automate the setup of a new machine, and do that I've created Dropbox shares of a number of my common configurations. (I could ...
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How to create an alias with drag and drop?
In MacOSX, when dragging a file or folder one can force a copy instead of a move by pressing option. I think that there used to be a way to alternatively create an alias but can't find which key to ...
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1answer
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Looking for a tool for creating or editing file and folder bookmarks (finder aliases)
I created a bookmark / Alias (via finder) for an smb share after mounting it. That's quite fine and working for me at it's best. It automatically mounts the smb store when acessing the alias and I can ...
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Why are the alias so big in filesize in Mountain Lion?
I noticed the alias(es) that I create in Mountain Lion are very big in filesize (for example an alias to a folder is 5.8MB!)
Compared to Leopard, they were just about 500KB.
Why is this? and is ...
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1answer
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Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder?
I use a lot of aliases in my file system. Many original documents are placed in global repositories and I access them by aliases grouped in "tag" folders.
Therefore, when I need to delete such a ...
2
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1answer
132 views
can I point my Pictures folder to a folder in an external hard drive?
I would like to save some space on my laptop and to do so I was thinking of moving my Pictures folder on an external hard drive. As OSX doesn't want me to mess around with the main folders in my home, ...
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1answer
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Apple alias in Mail and iCloud revealing my identity
I've set up a few email aliases in iCloud under pseudonyms.
If I receive an email to one of them (e.g. "Alias Name <pseudonym@icloud.com>), and I try to reply in Mail for Mac, it uses the ...
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1answer
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Adding SMB share to sidebar in OSX Mountain Lion
Is there a way to add an SMB share to the sidebar in Finder, such that when I click on the alias, it mounts the share and opens it up like a regular folder? You can do this in Linux and Windows, and ...
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Make alias on a NTFS external disk
I have an external drive formatted in NTFS. When I "Make Alias" with Finder, the alias is recognized as a Unix executable file. I'm using a third party NTFS app to write on this NTFS drive.
I'm not ...
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2answers
763 views
How do I create a shortcut link from the dock to an application?
I'm trying to put a link to Outlook Express in my dock but can't see how it's done. When I right-click on the application icon in a finder window, "Make Alias" is not one of the options available, so ...
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How can I use application aliases pointing to a secondary partition and launch them via Spotlight menu?
I have an SSD with two (bootable OS X) partitions. I don't want to have duplicate installations of most of my applications. So I made some OS X proprietary aliases in one of the two /Applications ...
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How do I make a terminal alias that edits root owned files in a GUI text editor?
How can I quickly edit root owned files like /etc/hosts and /etc/apache2/httpd.conf in a text editor such as TextEdit which would let me do modern text editor operations, without actually running the ...
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Can I create a Desktop Shortcut/Alias to a Folder from the Terminal?
I'd like to create a desktop shortcut to a specific folder, buried deep within ~/Library/. Library is Hidden by default in Lion, and I'd like to keep it that way, for a variety of reasons. Is there a ...
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1answer
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How come compiling my .tex file with my alias is lagging?
I have written an alias in ~/.bashrc to compile my tex files into pdfs. I am sure that ~/.bashrc is sourced.
alias p='rm -f *.pdf *.log *.aux;pdflatex *.tex;open *.pdf'
However, after I edit my ...
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Why don't my aliases in .bashrc work?
I have Lion on my Mac Air. I wrote some aliases in ~/.bashrc file, which looks like:
# Aliases
alias p='pdflatex *.tex;open *.pdf'
alias bromine='ssh administrator@bromine.org'
I then sourced my ...
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1answer
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Why must I source .bashrc every time I open terminal for aliases to work?
I added this line into my ~/.bashrc file.
alias myserver='ssh davidfaux@davidfaux.com'
However, when I open terminal and run myserver, terminal complains that
-bash: myserver: command not found
...
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2answers
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How can I make a soft link in Lion?
I realized today that an alias is not the same thing as a soft link in Lion. I made an alias of a folder in my Dropbox folder and moved the alias to my Desktop.
When I try to cd into this alias in ...
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1answer
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iMessage with iCloud mail aliases?
Is it possible to use an iCloud email alias as the Caller ID for iMessage?
When I try to enter an alias on "Receive At > Add Another Email..." I always get an error popup titled "iMessage Activation" ...
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2answers
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Can the Finder be tricked into assigning symlinks and aliases different icons?
It seems to me that the Finder does not (on the surface) distinguish between aliases and symbolic links. (In particular, in the Get Info window for a symlink the Finder claims the symlink is an ...
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2answers
715 views
How can I exit “bash”?
I don't know how to get my .profile aliases back in to the terminal every time I try them, this error massage comes up:
apaw:~ apaw$ cdp
-bash: cdp: command not found
How do i exit this -bash? I ...
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1answer
879 views
How do I use arguments together with bash aliases
Today, I learned the very handy trick:
man [some command] -t | open -f -a Preview
I'd like to create an alias in my .bash_profile file as a shortcut. In order for this to work, I need to pass an ...
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2answers
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List all defined aliases in Terminal
A friend who owned my current mac before me (I bought it from him) created a lot of alias commands. Is there a way of me being able to list all defined aliases and the command that is associated with ...
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1answer
368 views
Getting Automator to work with aliases vs. symbolic links on SMB shares
I would like to get automator to mount a volume in a shared SMB server and get all subfolders symlinked within my Documents folder.
I thought I could do that easily by creating Finder's so called ...
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1answer
515 views
“readlink” gets the original path of a symlink; what's the equivalent for Mac aliases?
In the terminal, I can use readlink on a symlink and it prints the target path of the symlink. E.g.
ln -s original.txt symlink.txt
readlink symlink.txt # prints original.txt
How do I do this for ...
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Can I create Windows-style alias in Finder?
In Windows, we can hold down Ctrl or use right mouse button while dragging the file in Explorer. When we release mouse button we see a menu where we can choose 'Create shortcut'.
It's quite handy, I ...
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2answers
409 views
How to make aliases go away when main file is deleted?
Is there a way to (automatically) delete all aliases when the file they are an alias to is deleted?
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2answers
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How to move a folder containing aliases to another machine without breaking the aliases?
I've got a large folder of music with lots of aliases to tunes that are spread throughout subfolders of the main tunes folder. For example I might keep the original files sorted by artist, and then ...
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3answers
246 views
How to force a diff format for TextMate?
I have this alias:
alias hgd='hg diff|mate'
The problem is that for some reason the temporary file thus created will be a .txt, while I'd need it to have the diff syntax highlight.
If I manually ...
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2answers
246 views
Alias for network drive
In the Finder > Connect To Server window I have an IP address I connect to. Is there a way to make a nickname or alias for this server?
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How do I create a symbolic link to a directory with a space in it?
I was trying to create a symbolic link using the following command:
ln -s "~/Foo Bar/" Foo
... but it didn't work (i.e. when I go into finder and try double clicking it, it says that it's pointing ...
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1answer
641 views
How to make an alias (Cmd-L) using command line?
With Finder, Cmd-L is a short-cut to make an alias of a file/directory. How can I use the command line to do that?
I tried 'ln -s', but it generates the 'Symbolic Link', not 'Alias'.
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1answer
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What's the difference between alias and link?
I see that the size of alias is 167.7kB, whereas symbolic link is just 4kB.
What's the difference between the two, or what's the purpose of them?
Which one is preferable? For the case that the ...
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How to create a shortcut on the desktop to a selected folder
In windows when right clicking a folder there is an option: send to -> desktop (create shortcut).
How can I do this on a Mac?
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How do I fix failed aliases?
I had two external hard disks: External and Backup. External had many aliases which pointed to other files on the same disk. Backup was used to backup External.
External failed, and I now use Backup, ...
